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Patented Aug. 9, I898. K. J. GAITZSCH.

REVERSIBLE CALK.

(Application filed June 12, 1897.)

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REVERSIBLE CALK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,665, dated August 9, 1898.

Application filed June 12, 1897. Serial No. 640,527. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KARL J ULIUs GAITZSCH, a subject of the King of Saxony, residing at Knauthain, in the Kingdom of Saxony, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oalks for Horseshoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. 7

The present invention consists of a reversible calk for horseshoes, which is formed so that two sides of its symmetrical section lap over the edges of the supporting-socket and protect the same, and in order to render the present specification more easily intelligible reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference denote similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a plan of the horseshoe seen from underneath; Fig. 2, a side elevation; Fig. 3, a cross-section through the calk and its supporting-socket, showing a four-cornered section; Fig. 4, a similar section of a pentagonal section; Fig. 5, a hexagonal section; and Fig. 6 a triangular section of calk with rounded protrusions in the sides,which serve to protect the edges of the socket.

The shoe is provided with calk supports or sockets K, formed on its under side, each somewhat dovetailed or inwardly widened and having one end closed and the other open, the calk being inserted into the socket at the open end and securedtherein by means of a pin or other suitable means, as at P. The cross-sections of the calks are such that whichever point may be turned outwardly two of its points will overlap the sides of the socket a As shown at Fig. 3, the calk 0; has four points, while in Figs. 4, 5, and 6 the points or arms a overlap the sides a of the socket in Whatever positionthe calk may be.

I claim as my invention A reversible calk having a number of working edges and a socket fast on the shoe to receive the said calk, the edges of said calk being arranged so that whichever edge is in the operative position, the edges of the socket shall be covered by other edges of the calk, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses;

KARL JULIUS GAITZSOII. Witnesses:

HERM. SAIK,

RUDOLPH FRICKE. 

